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Counting bodies : population in colonial American writing / Molly Farrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, Molly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.
- Population in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Looking to work by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Ligon, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others, Counting Bodies explores the imaginative, personal, and narrative writings that performed the cultural work of normalizing the enumeration of bodies.
- Contents:
- Introduction: stories of cataclysm and population
- Poetics of the ark ashore
- Measuring Caribbean aesthetics
- Counting in King Philip's War
- The death and life of colonial mortality bills
- Epilogue: Mourning the Figure of Three-fifths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-060765-3
- 0-19-027733-5
- 0-19-027732-7
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